SOME NOTES ON OPORABIA AUTUMNATA, BOKK. 95 



after all, have got mixed up with dilntata, from which it is entirely 

 distinct, structurally, rather than with jilii/raininnria, with which 

 Doubleday united it in his second catalogue ; but of course the 

 explanation lies in its habits and time of emergence (a woodland 

 insect of late autumn), and in its ampler wings, as compared with 

 /ilu/rauimaria.* 



I have three batches of eggs from Aberdeen and Kincardineshire 

 females of autioiniata, kindly supplied by Mr. Home, and hoped to 

 find some difierence from jiUi/iaiiiinaria, the imagines seeming so 

 different. But I find they (the ova) difl'er less from those of jUi- 

 l/raiiniiaria than do those of two races of dilntata, the one from the 

 other. Of these dilntata, which are greatly puzi^ling me, the present 

 is not the occasion to speak ; nor have I in this note reverted to 

 antuuinata, Gn. (ride, Ent. Pwc, ix., p, 248), as I have no further 

 definite light upon it ; I would only suggest, now that the right use of 

 the name antnnniata has been made out, that Guence's insect, whether 

 a species or a variety, be re-named ijncneata, n.n. 



The now ascertained existence of two species, side by side, in many 

 parts of the Continent, has left the Scandinavian determination of 

 nehulata, Thnb., doubtful, and I incline to ignore it for the present. 

 Six examples, kindly sent me by Prof. Aurivillius, are undoubted 

 autumnata, Bkh., of very varying forms; and this fact, combined with 

 some indications as to the larvae in Norway and Finland {ri(h>, l\iit. 

 liec, ix., p. 249) and some expressions in Thunberg's type description, 

 leads me to strongly suspect that nehnlata, Thnb. = aninmnata, Bkh., 

 and that it was at least premature to accept Lampa's identification 

 thereof with dilntata. So far as I can summarise the state of our 

 knowledge at the moment, our principal forms work out as follows : — 



1. Dilntata, Bkh. {$ genitalia, with a hook on the harpes). 



2. Gtiencata, n. nom. = antnmnata, Gn., nee Bkh. (spec, dubia.) 

 8. Antnmnata, Bkh. [g genitalia, with no hook on the harpes). 



a. Silver-white, light brown bands = the type. 



b. Glossy, silvery-grey tinged, sometimes infuscated = a(/(/(?i- 



daria, B. White. 



c. Smaller, and generally darker, perhaps somewhat less 



glossy = nppro.riiiiaria, Weav. 

 4. Filif/raminana, H.S., praec. var. ? ( <? genitalia as in No. 3), 

 smaller, with more pointed wings (especially in the $ ), 

 generally more inclining to suffusion of markings, etc., etc. 



• Since writing the above I have also seen a most interestinfj; lot of autiiinimtn, 

 from Enniskillen, Ireland, bred by Col. Partridge and Capt. E. W. Brown. 



On a New Classification of the Rhopalocera. 



By ENZIO REUTER, Ph. D., F.E.S. 

 {( 'nnelnded from p. 11.) 



I subdivide the suborder Rhopalocera, from which, as sta^pd above, 

 the IlesiHriidae arc excluded, into six principal groups or gentes. 

 These are distinguished as follows : I. — Gens : Papilionks (including 

 the families I'ainliiniiilae and I'ierididae, the latter with the subfamilies 

 I'scndojiiDitiinae and I'ieridinae). II. — Gens: Lyc.t:n.i; (including the 

 families Lycaenidae and Enjeinidaef the former with the sub-families 



